This is a joke, right? It seems that the main task of Reaper is to be different from other DAWs. At any price.
Seriously. Why such a button layout?
Is it user friendly for newbies who have switched from any other DAW? Not. We'll have to get used to the new location. It repels.
It's comfortable? Not. Often used buttons "Play" and "Stop" are now spaced and have a different size, it is harder to hit them with the mouse. Past the play button is now easier to miss and accidentally get into the record button.
Is this somehow logical? Not. Now the buttons are grouped in such a way that it is not justified either by what is reflected in the real world (tape recorders, as mentioned above), or from the point of view of the user's poor mode (usually a play-stop is ALWAYS near because these are almost the only buttons that are used by 95% of time).
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Originally Posted by White Tie
Now consider that loop state is a function of the play button. Now consider that Record must be beside play, since in Reaper they work in tandem. Now consider that all of this has been thoroughly discussed, in depth and at length, with lots of people. That's the discussion you're so casually dismissing, and that's the kind of thing that only happens on the internet. We need to get past that if we're going to make this work.
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I understand it. This is more like an
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias . Yes, we are all human and all subject to it, but it is important to realize this and stop in time. No need to "improve" what works well.